There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.

Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.

Be free and express yourself. Do what comes naturally.

I hate hateful people.

Everybody's the same color with the lights off.

The line between playing to win and sin is thin, But I walk it with grace and I talk it with taste. I am that raw, simply put, and I rest my case.

I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

Others tell like it is, while I tell it how I would like it to be.

I don't sell dope, I sell hope.

The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.

The most risky liability of your life is 'the unspoken truth'.

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!

Choosing providers is not a choice between surveillance/not; it's just choosing which feudal lord gets to spy on you.

If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.

People are calling a lot, sending scripts my way. Yes, it's wonderful because, let's face it, there aren't many wonderful scripts for women over the age of 10.

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.

One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man he can be anything.

Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.

What I would say about me is: What you see is what I get.